Taking Donations

I need a new mattress for my bed.

I’ve had this one for about ten years now. It has seen me through three different apartments.

It has hosted countless drunk and/or stoned friends, only nine lovers, a bout of basement mold and my own restless ass.

It makes my back ache and my heart, too, when I lay too long on it alone.

It is torn in a couple of spots, and still warped in others from my ex-boyfriend’s body.

It is stained with semen, blood, sweat, tears and old nightmares that I cannot forget.

Don’t get me wrong, body fluids aside, I have no emotional attachment to this mattress.  I’d love to replace it, if only I had the funds available to do so.  Do you think I enjoy sleeping night after night with the ghosts of my romantic failures?  Not to mention the ghosts of my ex-boyfriend’s old farts?

I need a new mattress; I think it would make my back hurt less.